Heinrich Maria Davringhausen

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen ( born October 21, 1894 in Aachen, † December 13, 1970 in Nice ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity and Magic Realism.

Life and work

After studying 1913/1914 at the Art Academy Dusseldorf Davringhausen took part in a 1914 group exhibition at Galerie Flechtheim. In the same year his stay in Ascona fell together with his friend Carlo Mense. 1915 was the parade held in Berlin, where friendships with George Grosz and the brothers Herzfelde revealed.

In 1919, he presented for the first time from the Munich Galerie Hans Goltz and met Alexander Kanoldt know. In Dusseldorf, he joined the boys Rhineland. He was a member of the Berlin November Group and participated in 1925 in the most stylish and influential conceptual exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit in Mannheim and founded in Munich with Carlo Mense, Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf the New Objectivity Group.

In 1932 he founded a year later redissolved avant-garde group 32 with Seiwert, Hoerle, Räderscheidt and Ludwig Egidius Ronig. 1933 Davringhausen fled with his wife, daughter of Jewish entrepreneurs Lore Auerbach, into exile, first to Cala Ratjada in Mallorca, Ascona 1936 and then in 1939 to Paris and finally to southern France. In Germany, approximately 200 of his works were removed as degenerate art from public museums; Davringhausen received a painting and exhibiting ban. 1939/1940 he was interned along with other artists such as Max Ernst, Anton Räderscheidt and numerous writers such as Lion Feuchtwanger, Walter Hasenclever and Golo Mann in the camp at Les Milles near Aix-en -Provence, but managed to escape in the Auvergne. After the war he lived until his death in 1970 in Cagnes -sur -Mer.

His work was increasingly influenced by the abstraction since the emigration. In the years 1989 to 2009, the estate of the painter was at the Leopold -Hoesch Museum in Düren. This has several exhibitions of his paintings held at that time, especially those from the later creative periods, and in 1995 a retrospective of the surviving works of the New Objectivity. From February to June 2013 shows the August- Macke-Haus in Bonn around 40 exhibits from Davringhausens early career.